Help! It's the end of the school year so I was going through some of the other worksheets they had to offer and I found one I don't quite understand. I would like an example to see how to set up problems like this in the future.
Delaney would like to make a 5 lb nut mixture that is 60% peanuts and 40% almonds. She has several pounds of peanuts and several pounds of a mixture that is 20% peanuts and 80% almonds. Let p represent the number of pounds of peanuts needed to make the new mixture, and let m represent the number of pounds of the 80% almond-20% peanut mixture.
(a) What is the system

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Help! It's the end of the school year so I was going through some of the other worksheets they had to offer and I found one I don't quite understand. I would like an example to see how to set up problems like this in the future.
	Delaney would like to make a 5 lb nut mixture that is 60% peanuts and 40% almonds. She has several pounds of peanuts and several pounds of a mixture that is 20% peanuts and 80% almonds. Let p represent the number of pounds of peanuts needed to make the new mixture, and let m represent the number of pounds of the 80% almond-20% peanut mixture.
(a)	What is the system

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(a)	What is the system that models this situation?
(b)	How many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of the 80% almond-20% peanut mixture will she need?